MIDLIFE BY DESIGN: CURATING YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
I want to start with a question Maria Girguis asked herself years into her career in clinical pharmacy. What if the problem isn’t that we don’t have enough medicine? What if the problem is that we’ve been treating the body in pieces, and wondering why READ MORE…
It started with a sentence. Earlier this year, for International Women’s Day, I asked women to finish this: “This is Midlife by Design, Not by Default, because…” Sixteen women responded. Different countries. Different stories. Different seasons of midlife. But underneath all of it, the same READ MORE…
Summer has a way of making us more aware of our bodies. There is less fabric. More light. More exposure. More mirrors, more skin, more invitations to be seen. And for many women, especially in midlife, that can bring up all sorts of feelings. Not READ MORE…
There was a time when summer felt like something that simply happened around me. The weather changed. The days got longer. People started talking about holidays, barbecues, plans, school breaks, iced drinks, garden evenings, and making the most of it all. Summer arrived on the READ MORE…
There’s a question I’ve been sitting with lately. Why is it that so many women arrive at midlife carrying health questions they’ve never once said out loud? Questions they’ve been too embarrassed to ask, or were told didn’t matter, or quietly assumed were just part READ MORE…
With guest Csilla Gergely, writer of Feminine Energy for Midlife WomenWhat does it actually take …
There’s a kind of clarity that arrives in Spring that doesn’t feel like motivation. It feels like the truth, the light changes, the days stretch out, you can breathe a little differently, and suddenly the work you’ve been tolerating becomes… louder. Not because it got READ MORE…
Over-explaining is one of those habits that looks like communication, but often comes from fear. Fear of being misunderstood. Fear of being seen as difficult. Fear of someone being disappointed. Fear of someone thinking you’re selfish, cold, too much, not enough. So we pad the READ MORE…
There’s a quiet moment that happens sometimes when you’re standing in your own kitchen, the kettle’s on, there are crumbs on the counter, a laundry basket is judging you from the corner like it pays rent, you’re wearing the same leggings you swore you’d stop READ MORE…
In this special Podcasthonepisode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, I’m exp…
